foam at the mouth

Definitions

1. 1

   To spew saliva as foam.

   • The servant, who had not stayed long enough to have crossed the court to Conrad’s apartment, came running back breathless, in a frantic manner, his eyes staring, and foaming at the mouth.
2. 2

   To rage, vent one's anger.

   • My lord, Now fear is from me, I'll speak troth. Lord Cloten, Upon my lady’s missing, came to me With his sword drawn; foam’d at the mouth, and swore, If I discover’d not which way she was gone, It was my instant death.
   • “[…] when I returned from thrashing you I went storming through the house, kicking about the pots and pans, and foaming at the mouth in such a way that I not only stopped the spies laughing, but put them in fear of their lives.”
   • Various groups in Mumbai filed police complaints about the alleged obscenity of the show. Some TV anchors foamed at the mouth over how the “modesty of Indian culture” had been desecrated.

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